He Said / She Said: Her Number Doesn’t Matter

He Said/She Said is a new series designed to help dudes understand what chicks are thinking. Every week we’ll be throwing out a topic for debate…you can read the guy’s side here and the girl’s side at CollegeCandy.com. This week’s topic: Does her number of sex partners matter?

What’s in a number? As objective as we perceive numbers to be, they can be fudged, warped, and misconstrued. Take age, for instance. If you head back to college for a 5 year reunion, you’re old news. You might as well be 60. Yet, you become VP or CEO of a company and you’re a wunderkind (that’s German for “wonder child” not “whale’s vagina”). What about the number of sex partners? This one’s definitely trickier.

According to CalculatorLive.com, the average number of sex partners for an average male in the United States is 11 while the average number of sex partners for an average female in the US is closer to 7.

Of course, a number of variables aren’t considered in these surverys (age, household income, education, etc.) that might give us a better understanding of sexuality throughout the country. One thing’s for sure, we’ve even been trained to expect when a man provides his number of sexual conquests it’s usually inflated by twice the amount while chicks will bring it down by 50-75%. No wonder we can’t trust each other. This is the classic case of he said / she said.

I’m here to say f*** it. Her number doesn’t matter… to a certain extent. Obviously, if she just broke the world record for dudes in one day or has threesomes each weekend or hooks up EVERY time she goes out that could pose a problem or 500, but I believe there’s a number out there that is considered REALLY HIGH when, if considered in rational terms, is actually NOT BAD by any means. I have a ton of friends who disagree with me on this one, but I’ve been around research enough to know that you can spin numbers in your favor and build a story about them.

So, what’s the number? Think about it this way. When a chick’s in college, she goes out a MINIMUM of 3 times a week. Multiply that by 4-5 weeks depending on the month and that’s 12-15 times a month. Multiply by 12 months and you have 144 – 180 times per year. Now, say she slept with a different guy each MONTH. Just 1 guy per month, maybe they dated for a couple weeks, maybe it was a one night stand. That’s 12 guys in 1 year. Twelve sexual partners out of 144 nights out (12/144) = she slept with a new guy 8.3% of her nights out; out of 180 nights out, it’s lowered to 6.67% of nights out. I don’t know about you but 7-8% of the time doesn’t sound very high.

But, that’s just one year. What if we started when she first became “legal” (in most states) at age 18. Twelve sex partners a year times 6 years (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24) and you have 72 sexual partners. Absolutely unheard of, right? She must be a complete c*m dumpster! Let’s back it off a bit. Let’s say she’s had sex with a different guy each season – 1 for Fall, 1 for Winter, 1 for Spring, 1 for Summer. That number is still 24 sexual partners. WAY above the “average”.

So, you’re going to sit there with a straight face and tell me that the “average” female sleeps with maybe 6 different sexual partners over the course of her LIFETIME?! I was just talking about what I consider to be an average 24 year old woman and she’s already at 12-24 sex partners. Average lifespan for a woman in the U.S. is about 80. Average age of women when first get married is around 26. If they first become sexually active at 18 (haha), that’s 8 solid years of being single. You’re telling me she had sex with LESS than one guy per year?

Listen, I understand women aren’t as sexually driven as men. I’ve been told on numerous occasions women would rather NOT have sex than bang a dude and not get a follow up phone call from the guy. But, I gotta believe this odd hypocrisy stems from the chastising women, and some men, hand down to women that enjoy sex. I feel it’s the main reason why relationships suck. Women can’t just pump and dump because they’ll be castigated, so they try to force their way into a relationship to make it seem “normal” and not slutty.

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Gimme a break. In my opinion, if you’re smart about it, use a condom, take birth control, get tested, then once a month, once every other month, hell once every SEASON should be okay. You’ll probably find the love of your life quicker that way instead of marrying that f***ing jackass who gives you an eating disorder.